Honest Quote by Grace Jones

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there…

— Lewis Hyde

People like to see their lives mythologized in some way.

— James Watkins

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize…

— Ernest Hemingway

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

— Travis Scott

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living…

— Laurie Foos

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to…

— Joseph Campbell

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

— Carl Jung

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

— Iris Smyles

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

— Keith Allen

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

— Tim O'Brien

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

— Anne Carson